This mod allows to completely fell trees by destroying only one block. The whole tree is harvested and moved to the players inventory. But therefore lumberjack privs are needed. New player normally will not get the necessary privs immediately, they have to harvest the tree from the top, block by block "to improve their skills".To simplify the climbing, the mod allows to hit steps into the tree (ladder function)

But there are three configuration possibilities:

All players get directly lumberjack privs

Players have to collect points to get lumberjack privs

Players will never get lumberjack privs from the mod itself (but will be granted by means of other reasons)

Points have to be collected by harvesting tree blocks AND planting saplings.The default setting is 400 which means, you have to harvest more then 400 tree blocks and plant more then 66 (400/6) saplings to get lumberjack privs.

The configuration can be changed directly in the file 'settingtypes.txt' or by means of the Minetest GUI.

Some technical aspects:

'param1' of the nodes data is used to distinguish between grown trees and placed tree blocks so that this mod will not have any impact to buildings or other objects based on tree blocks

an API function allows to register additional trees from other mods, which is quite simple

the Ethereal mod is already supported, others will follow

Dependenciesdefault

LicenseCopyright (C) 2018 Joachim Stolberg Code: Licensed under the GNU LGPL version 2.1 or later. See LICENSE.txt and http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl-2.1.txtSound is taken from Hybrid Dog (TreeCapitator)

Last edited by joe7575 on Mon Apr 16, 2018 20:34, edited 1 time in total.

For short trees, I sometimes harvest from the bottom, but only after clearing all the leaf nodes. For taller trees, it's easier to start at the top. Also, I think the purpose of doing it from the top in this mod is to prevent the floating logs some players leave.

This is a pretty cool idea! It causes trees to be treated similar to papyrus in how they're dug.

Very good idea. Tree logs hanging in the air are very annoying, and motivating players to dig the entire tree is highly welcome. I hope it doesn't really matter in which direction the tree is cut? I usually start from the bottom. If the tree is higher than what I can reach, temporal piles of dirt or leaves placed where the trunks had been help to get the upper parts.

Since I have installed the "top-down approach mod", this problem is gone.You have to go into discussion with players asking, why this awkward way?But at the end they will be rewarded and you will have blooming forests :D

If you really want a top-down approach for trees - how about adding a special axe that allows to dig tiny holes in the trunk and climb up using them? There's a mod somewhere on the forum that allows to do this with stone cliffs. Maybe you could allow all axes to act that way. If it's not the topmost tree node, add a non-diggable ladder (which looks like holes) instead of digging the tree block. If it's the topmost node, dig it normally with the axe. Be sure to distinguish between trees placed by mapgen or grown from saplings and tree logs placed by people who are trying to build a house. The later ones might get quite annoyed if they can't really use tree logs for building anymore.

Half-cut trees are a huge annoyance on servers, so I hope your mod will get used.

Sokomine wrote:...how about adding a special axe that allows to dig tiny holes in the trunk and climb up using them? There's a mod somewhere on the forum that allows to do this with stone cliffs. Maybe you could allow all axes to act that way.

Sokomine wrote:If you really want a top-down approach for trees - how about adding a special axe that allows to dig tiny holes in the trunk and climb up using them? There's a mod somewhere on the forum that allows to do this with stone cliffs. Maybe you could allow all axes to act that way. If it's not the topmost tree node, add a non-diggable ladder (which looks like holes) instead of digging the tree block. If it's the topmost node, dig it normally with the axe.

Very good idea, thanks. It will try it.

Sokomine wrote:Be sure to distinguish between trees placed by mapgen or grown from saplings and tree logs placed by people who are trying to build a house. The later ones might get quite annoyed if they can't really use tree logs for building anymore.

That's already the case and works for all supported trees, so far.

twoelk wrote:yay - and now challenge More-Trees and all the others of this List: ...

The question is how many public server use all this "nature" mods?However, the mod provides a function to register further trees: